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[3930dave]

As it is, after making firewood, we are too tired to fight! lol

Truth there... wasn't any real scraps down on the farm in the old days..... too darn tired from Gettin' 'er Done !

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

Well tomorrow they deliver my 10KW genny that will replace the 6.5 that I accidentally blew by back feeding the hydro.
(I manually powered the wrong side of switch box that powered my septic pump and the genny did not like that, my bad)

In all probability I should be able to repair the older set and if so I have a taker lined up.
Good excuse to be able to add more creature comforts, LOL.

Wood stove was capable of maintaining minimal heat but a PIA plus I'm not young any more.

With 10kw I plan to simply use a few ceramic heaters as my emergency heat sources.
A $40/50 tender keeps my battery always fully charged for easy cold starting.

In my situation I have a wood shed just outside my basement where I house the genny and the thick concrete basement foundation totally isolates the genny noise from the house.

I'll add that in past I've experienced a 4 day power outage at -30 weather, no fun!
Also we are the end of a power grid so response is not the best.
Power lines also run thru the forest at places with minimal maintained clearing of the right of way.
Trees have that tenancy of blowing over.

Enjoy your early Christmas present, should take care of your place well :thumbsup:

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

It is amazing how much stuff you can blow out a genset exhaust when it has t been run in a long time... Or run excessively without load.

Coated many cars, pedestrians, cyclists and alleyways in carbon or watery, rusty carbon or bird and/ or nests over the years. The best one though was a smouldering crow that was launched a hundred feet in the air in front of a tour group at a large site.

It’s a shame we never had camera phones back then.

Even with a coffee can always on my tractor stack when parked, once fired a big mud-dauber nest into the air at startup..... brief "What The _______" moment.....

Crow..... definitely a Kodak Moment ! "Lunch is Served !"

Rgds, D.

 

[Chilliwack Murray]

It was one of my first annual maintenance and load tests on about a 300kw between a bunch of buildings so the exhaust was run over to and up the side of one of the buildings so it was already about 60’ in the air. Crow must’ve fell down and no way out.

It had been running at full load for 30-45 min and I had been walking around it looking for an odd smell I just couldn’t place. Just at that moment a large tour group was walking through the same area (it was at the TRIUMF particle accelerator) when I noticed something shoot out the exhaust and continue another 50 or more feet up before the smouldering husk of a crow came settling back to earth between the tour group and me.

I’d sure would have loved a video of that... and now you know, the rest of the story.

 

[3930dave]

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em !

Given where that was, a bit surprising that event didn't kick off weeks of protest groups camping out !

A "little" bigger pipe on that one than any I own (or likely ever will....), but that raises a good point about obstructions. Olde School flapper caps can keep out more than just rain......

Rgds, D.

 

[PILOON]

Speaking of firewood for emergency heat--------------

Our community while rugged forestry is within city limits and one neighbor's trees (20 ish) were attacked by some bugs.
So to comply he needed a permit($$) to down those dead trees.

Get this----------
The permit specifies that he must plant 20 new replacement trees !

LOL, in the forest!

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have mixed feelings about such rules. If it fosters a mindset of appreciation of nature and resources, it's not a bad thing. On the other hand, people are earning a Government paycheck and probably look forward to a Government pension, as they enforce such rules. Meanwhile, your average working Joe stuggles to make ends meet and goes farther into debt, (and while paying his many taxes) with no government pension to look forward to.

 

[Chilliwack Murray]

That was a big issue around here a number of years ago. The city absorbed a mountain that’s had people living on it for many years.

They don’t have much for services (before or after) mainly just power but the city was quick to start enforcing the tree cutting ban.

This is a very remote area and most people heat with wood and have 10+ acres they use to supply firewood and replant continuously. Suddenly it was $1200 permit to cut a tree, replace 4 for every 1 cut etc etc. These people have managed their wood supply for years and rely on it for heat.

I don’t remember the outcome of that issue but I’ve read several articles since where they state they now pay 5-6 times more in property tax and get nothing more than they did before - less actually since the city does less to repair and clear the roads than the provincial highways contractor did.

Some university grad who grew up in the city drafting bylaws for people they know nothing about. Cities are much like big companies that way.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Not really. Companies can't EXTORT their income. Unless they happen to be into organized crime, which really is an appropriate name for Government.

There are people in this world that will seize upon any opportunity to control other people. Usually those that are utterly worthless and incompetant themselves.

 

[Chilliwack Murray]

True.

Just mean companies and governments tend to be run by people with more education than experience and seem to all follow the same textbooks.

It becomes apparent when they all make the same bad decisions whatever part of the country or world they are located.

We should have some more generator talk before this becomes a political thread I think.